When joy feels far away
It is so hard when joy feels far away. The landscape feels as though it’s grown monotonous and grey and it can feel unending. But just...
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Carly Slade
- Sep 8, 2021
- 2 min
You can trust the growing pains of your transformation
The moon waxes into light as effortlessly as she surrendered to the darkness that came before. She has done this countless times before...
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Carly Slade
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
Faith as a natural antidote to fear
As the world begins to open up I have noticed fear creeping in. So I have been exploring meeting it face on. When I talk about fear I...
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Carly Slade
- May 21, 2021
- 3 min
Why I do what I do
From addiction to obsession Before I discovered yoga I was in survival mode. I went from work to sleep to work and from addiction to...
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Carly Slade
- May 10, 2021
- 5 min
Overcoming my fear of speaking
The Shy Child Sent to Stagecoach I wasn't a naturally expressive person in the sense that as a child I was incredibly, painfully shy and...
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Carly Slade
- Jan 20, 2021
- 3 min
Emotions as allies
Every year I get braver and braver in meeting my emotions and it seems the more resilience I develop the more challenging the emotional...
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Carly Slade
- Jan 4, 2021
- 5 min
Outgrowing our stories
I used to think January 1st was a funny time to start a year but as I've more closely observed nature I see that it is less arbitrary...
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Carly Slade
- Dec 8, 2020
- 5 min
Your Wild Heart
If my heart and I had a status it would definitely be 'it's complicated' but in recent times I'm starting to feel that we're actually in...
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Carly Slade
- Aug 13, 2020
- 4 min
Learning to harvest the crop and settle in for winter
Living close to nature and on a farm keeps me deeply connected to the seasons and cycles of nature, which in turn serves as a daily reminder
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Carly Slade
- Jul 31, 2020
- 8 min
Don't we all deserve a life worth living?
The last few months have really had me reflecting even more deeply than usual on cyclical living and the pace of modern life.
A couple of
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Carly Slade
- May 3, 2020
- 5 min
Yoga and obsession
I started yoga at 17 because I was obsessed with exercise and the Power Yoga VHS I used pushed me hard and kept me out of my body. I exerci
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Carly Slade
- Apr 30, 2020
- 2 min
Intimacy and Isolation
So those of you who know me will know that one of the big things I've had to work through is a fear of intimacy in intimate...
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Carly Slade
- Feb 25, 2020
- 3 min
Untethering the mind and drifting into stillness
Thinking is becoming a lost art, not just worrying, planning, remembering, judging and all of the usual mind fluctuations we cram into the b
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Carly Slade
- Nov 18, 2019
- 6 min
Part 9 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Existential Explorations, Kośas and Bringing It Into Our Everyday
This is the stage that seems to keep people coming back for more week after week. At the beginning of class I often have a check in and open
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Carly Slade
- Oct 14, 2019
- 4 min
Part 8 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Joy, bliss and pure awareness
Our human brains are primed to problem solve for our survival but for many of us our survival needs are no longer about life or death and th
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Carly Slade
- Oct 8, 2019
- 3 min
Part 7 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 7 Visualisation
This week we explore the visualisation stage of Yoga Nidra. This stage is perhaps one of the most varied in terms of its delivery,...
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Carly Slade
- Oct 1, 2019
- 5 min
Part 6 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 6 Breath Awareness
This week we explore the breath awareness stage, which also sometimes includes body/floor awareness for grounding. To Breathe Well is to...
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Carly Slade
- Sep 24, 2019
- 6 min
Part 5 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 5 Opposites
During the preceding stage of rotation of consciousness we induce relaxation of the sensorimotor surface of the brain and then during the op
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Carly Slade
- Sep 16, 2019
- 8 min
Part 4 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 4 Rotation of Consciousness
The body scan can be used to promote relaxation and body awareness, to invoke or deepen a trance state, to promote healing by reconnecting t
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Carly Slade
- Sep 10, 2019
- 6 min
Part 3 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Stage 3 Sankalpa
Sankalpa loosely translated from Sanskrit to English means a vow to your highest self or highest truth. Some schools of Yoga Nidra believe t
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